Dear friends and colleagues,
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Kyoto University is pleased to announce the launch of a monthly internal newsletter. This will be sent out on a monthly basis and include updates on activities, research meetings, events, new publications and podcasts.
July 2025 issue includes:
1. Announcements and Highlights
2. Upcoming Events
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
4. Presentations
5. Podcasts in Japanese: “Book Talk on Asia”
6. Media Exposure
7. Past Events
Thank you and regards,
The Public Relations Committee,
Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS)
1. Announcements and Highlights
【July Get Together】
・The monthly welcome and farewell party, Get Together, will be held on Thursday, July 24, from 12:30 pm at the Small Meeting Room II (#332 on the 3rd floor of Inamori Center). Please join us and have an opportunity to enjoy small talk.
We have updated the visiting scholars’ web page. Please check here
【New Research Associate】
・Yu Bai (Economics): CSEAS welcomes Yu Bai as Guest Scholar from July 28 to August 24.
・Lidan Lyu (Demography): CSEAS welcomes Lidan Lyu as Guest Scholar from July 28 to August 24.
・Jiri Jakl (History, Anthropology): CSEAS welcomes Jiri Jakl as Visiting Research Scholar from August 1 to October 31.
【New!】Introduction of an Early Publication System in Southeast Asian Studies
【Award】Asst. Prof. Kisho Tsuchiya has been awarded the 14th (2025) Mishima Kaiun Academic Award for his work Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production,1860–2010. Congratulations!
【Award】Assoc. Prof. Yoshimi Nishi was named laureate of the 40th (2025) Daido Life Foundation Incentive Award for Area Studies. Congratulations!
【Obituary】Prof. Emeritus Isamu Yamada (1943–2025)
A gathering to commemorate Prof. Yamada will be held on October 18.
2. Upcoming Events
・CSEAS Colloquium
Date & Time: Monday, 28 July 2025, 2:00–3:30 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: Elusive Inclusive Growth in the Philippines: State Tradition and Policy Choices (Manufacturing, MSMEs, CCT)
Speaker: Maria Victoria Raquiza (NCPAG, University of the Philippines Diliman / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
・International Seminar: Fifty Years of Research on Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Hunter-Gatherers in the Congo Basin and Contributions to the Future
Date & Time: Monday, 28 July, 2025, 4:00–6:30 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Large Meeting Room (I333), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
・Workshop on Biodiversity and Food Security in Southeast Asia: Linking Traditional Knowledge, Regional Landscapes, and Economic Practices
Date and Time: Thursday, 31 July 2025, 3:00–5:30 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Chair: Yalei ZHAI (CSEAS)
・Special Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, 1 August 2025, 3–5 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: Talcott Parsons Comes to Campus: A Marcos Dictatorship Think Tank and the University of the Philippines
Speaker: Patricio Nunez Abinales (Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
Discussant: Yusuke Takagi (GRIPS)
・Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar
Date & Time: Wednesday, 6 August 2025, 3:00–4:30 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: E220, Faculty of Agriculture Main Building, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Speaker: Jun Goto (GRIPS)
Title: The Long-Run Effects of Patriotic Education During Political Repression: Evidence From the Cultural Revolution in China (joint with Kai Kajitani)
・My Kyoto Seminar
Date & Time: Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 9:00–11:40 (open: 8:30) (Japan Time)
Venue: Large Meeting Room (I333), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Theme: Alternative Sustainability and DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging) from ASEAN-Japan Perspectives
Participation: Pre-registration (Deadline: August 29)
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
【New Article】Ramon Guillermo, ““Karampátan ñg Tao”: Tracing the Rise of Tagalog Human Rights Discourse Using a Textual Corpus,” Southeast Asian Studies, July 3, 2025, Advance online publication.
【New Article】Jemma Purdey and Antje Missbach, “Pocketing the Prize: Lingering Patterns of Prestige in Southeast Asian Studies,” Southeast Asian Studies, July 3, 2025, Advance online publication.
【New Article】Nikolas Århem, “Traditional Chinese Medicine and Tiger Beliefs: Tracing an Animist-Analogist Transition in China and Vietnam,” Southeast Asian Studies, July 9, 2025, Advance online publication.
【New Article】Mary Grace R. Concepcion, “Historical Violence and the Child: Normalcy and Familial Relations in Children’s Books on the Marcos Dictatorship,” Advance online publication, Southeast Asian Studies, July 9, 2025, Advance Publication.
【New Article】Ichiro Kakizaki, “Concentration and Disarmament of Japanese Soldiers in Thailand After World War II,” Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, May 16, 2025, Advance online publication.
【New Article】Tomoko Nakata, “Reconsidering the Highlander-lowlander Dichotomy through the Phu Mi Bun Rebellion of Southern Laos,” Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, June 24, 2025, Advance online publication.
【New Article】Sakine Nakajima, “The Contemporary Dynamics of the Bay of Bengal Maritime World in the Tamil-Muslim Immigrant Community of Malaysia,” Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, July 1, 2025, Advance online publication.
【New Article】Kaoru Nishijima, “The “Return” of a Theatre State during Indonesia’s Democratization Period: The Case of the Dayak “Kingdom” in West Kalimantan Province,” Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, July 7, 2025, Advance online publication.
【Latest Issue】
・Special issue (40) titled “Eroding Electoral Integrity: Reasons for Democratic Backsliding in Southeast Asia” of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia is out on March 1, 2025. In this issue, Asia Centre serves as the guest editor and includes five articles. Each article is available in English, Japanese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Myanmar on our website. Five book reviews are also available.
【New Article】
・TRENDSETTERS column “Southeast Asia’s Donald J. Trump: Hun Sen Burns Thaksin Shinawatra to the Ground,” by William J. Jones, in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on July 1, 2025.
【Latest Issue】CSEAS monthly newsletter released on July 9.
[Notes from the Field] Rural Village Study in Vietnam: Finding the Balance between Researching Specific Issues and Asking Big Questions (Masayuki Yanagisawa)
[Letter from the Kamogawa River] Ultraman and Imagined Communities: Heroes and Imagination Beyond Borders (Hiroyuki Yamamoto)
【New Article/Open Access】Takahashi, Tomoko, Sanae Suzuki, and Taku Yukawa. 2025. “Institutionalized Authority and Personal Traits of Executive Heads in International Organizations: A New Database.” International Interactions, July, 1–22. doi:10.1080/03050629.2025.2527826.
【Dataset】Takahashi, Tomoko; Sanae Suzuki; Taku Yukawa, 2024, “Institutionalized Authority and Personal Traits of Executive Heads in International Organizations: A New Database,” doi:10.7910/DVN/UEOIX4, Harvard Dataverse, V1
4. Presentations
【Presentation】Chika Yamada, Youdiil Ophinni. “Centering harm reduction in Jakarta, Indonesia: The life story of a pioneering activist.” Oral Presentation in the 10th International Conference on the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 26 June 2025.
【Chair】Chika Yamada. Chair of panel “Ethics and Medicine” in the 10th International Conference on the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 26 June 2025.
【Lecture】Youdiil Ophinni, Chika Yamada. “Transdisciplinarity at the intersection of health and ecology: Insights from area studies.” Guest Lecture in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 28 June 2025.
【Presentation】Takahashi, Tomoko. “Anchoring the Major Powers: Bilateral Trade Effects in the World Trade Organization,” the seventh Pacific International Politics Conference (PIPC), Tokyo, Japan, July 4, 2025.
【Book Talk】Kisho Tsuchiya, Roundtable Session on Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2024). Movimento Letras, 14 July 2025, Dili, East Timor.
【Presentation】Kisho Tsuchiya, “Alternative to Colonial History? An Interpretive Outline of the History of Timorese Community Formation,” research presentation at the Timor-Leste Studies Association Conference, 16–18 July 2025, Dili, East Timor.
【Visit】Shoichiro Hara and Mikiko Ono, Meeting on Building Cooperative Relationships for Research Data Management (RDM) in International Joint Research, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, 7 July 2025, Hanoi, Vietnam.
【Presentation】Takahashi, Tomoko. “Reminiscing Exclusion: China and Indonesia’s Initiatives of
the Conference of the New Emerging Forces,” 28th World Congress of Political Science, International Political Science Association (IPSA), Seoul, Republic of Korea, July 14, 2025.
【Presentation】Takahashi, Tomoko (co-chair and discussant). “(Panel) Science Diplomacy of China,” International Political Science Association (IPSA), Seoul, Republic of Korea, July 16, 2025.
【Presentation】Takahashi, Tomoko. “Taking Off for Marketization: China’s Initiatives on Economic Resolutions,” International Conference “From Research to Publication: Remapping Conversations on Doing Political Science and IR from/on East Asia and Beyond,” the Kangwon Institute for Unification Studies (KIUS) at Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea, July 17, 2025.
5. Podcasts in Japanese: “Book Talk on Asia”
In this program, the Editorial Office, CSEAS introduces the latest books on Asia. The authors are invited to talk about the contents and background of their books.
6. Media Exposure
・Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia was ranked 9th in FeedSpot’s “35 Best Southeast Asian Blogs and Websites in 2025” on June 10, 2025.
・A discovery by the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) underwater archaeological survey, in which Hiroshi Ishii (Program-specific Researcher, MAHS) participated as a member of the Science Team of OET, featured in the Newsweek Digital and the Yomiuri Shimbun.
“Photos Reveal Sunken Warship Discovered Half a Mile Deep After 83 Years” (Newsweek Digital, July 16, 2025)
“[80 Years After the War] IJN Destroyer ‘Teruzuki’ Discovered on the Seabed Off Guadalcanal Island; Turrets and Damage Match” (Yomiuri Shimbun, 20 July 2025, Morning Edition, p.29) (Paid article, in Japanese)
“IJN Destroyer Teruzuki Discovered” (Video by OET, 12 July 2025)
7. Past Events
・Tonan Talk
Date & Time: Thursday, 17 July 2025, 10:30–12:00 (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: (In)visible Inequalities: Gender and Immigrant Background in Elite Japanese Firms
Speaker: Hilary J. Holbrow (Indiana University)
・Special Seminar
Date & Time: Monday, 14 July 2025, 1:00–2:30 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: Boats to nowhere?: Navigating Risks and Uncertainties aboard Rohingya Refugee Boats
Speaker: Antje Missbach (Bielefeld University / Guest Scholar, CSEAS)
・Asia Round Table Series 2025–1: AMRO-CSEAS Joint Seminar
Date&Time: Wednesday, 16 July 2025, 3:30–5:30 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University / Online
Theme: ASEAN’s macroeconomic and financial resilience
・Courtesy Visit from the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO)
Date: Wednesday, 16 July 2025
・Myanmar Earthquake Relief – Donation Report & Community Update
Date & Time: Wednesday, 2 July 2025, 17:00–18:30 (Japan Time)
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Organizer: CAACCS, Kyoto Seika University
Co-organizer: CSEAS
・CSEAS Colloquium
Date & Time: Monday, 30 June 2025, 4–6 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University / Online
Title: Art Meets Anthropology: Balancing Tatemae (public face) & Honne (private face)
Speaker: Jeanine Schreurs (Guest Scholar, CSEAS)
・ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum (ABMF) Kyoto University sessions on building a sustainable society
Date & Time: Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:30 am–4:10 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: International Science Innovation Building, Kyoto University
Organizers: ADB, CSEAS, GSM-Kyoto University
・Learning Southeast Asian Culture and Society: Screening
Date & Time: Friday, 27 June 2025, 6 pm– (Japan Time)
Venue: Multimedia Room 2, 1st Floor, East Building, CSEAS Kyoto University
Film title: Hanuman and 7 Ultraman (105min, Thai with Japanese subtitles)
・Special Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, 27 June 2025, 4:00–5:30 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: Featuring the Southeast Asia Policy of the Middle Powers: A Comparative Studies of Taiwan and Korea
Speaker: Alan Hao Yang (National Chengchi University)
Commentator: Mie Oba (Kanagawa University)
・Special Seminar
Date & Time: Thursday, 26 June 2025, 1:30–3:00 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Medium Meeting Room (I332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: In Good Hands: Religion as a Hierarchical System
Speaker: Ward Keeler (University of Texas at Austin)
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